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Spring Anime 2012 II | Welcome Home Eureka

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cajunator

Banned
Mahoraba is just a poor man's Change 123.

Mahoraba came before it, and its a million times cuter. Mahoraba wins.
Plus, it has sadistic Tamami

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Lain

Member
Kids on the slope 4

Woah, Kaoru, you don't waste time.
I really liked how Kaoru took it out on Sentaro basically, only to later face some cold hard facts. In the mean time, I weep for Sentaro. Poor guy is gonna suffer.
 

Steroyd

Member
Aquarion Evol 19


Im surprised random operator xyz gets fans and fanart (though guess he has speaking roles).

Whoever is the writer for the series must be applauded, after watching the episode and the previous one Im just shocked and need the next episode with answers
Mix? What did they even do? Did she get some memory alteration? Shes a guy now? Something in the air affects females? Mikono is going off on her own, why? We have no idea what Mikage wants anymore, Kagura is a guy or girl then? Though Im glad Amata gets to meet his mom hopefully she can talk or speak. And dont want Andy to die or get hurt

Seems something in the atmosphere turns women into men, Zessica was talking about how her throat started hurting since they arrived, voice breaking perhaps?

First day of results from ISML 2012 are up and it's just a terrible mess of numbers and data. See the following gallery for all the results:

http://imgur.com/a/pDiwS

Holo losing to Haruhi by a wide margin, why? And the Inori phenomenon still continues to perplex me.


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Articalys

Member
Very slow week for DVD sales, but anyway:

Weekly Rankings for April 30-May 6

Blu-ray
*1, 3,011 53,171 Nisemonogatari vol.1 Limited Edition
*2, 2,997 *2,997 Amagami SS+ plus vol.2
*3, 1,940 *1,940 Kannagi Blu-ray Box
*4, 1,660 20,407 Persona 4 The Animation vol.6 Limited Edition
*5, 1,395 *1,395 Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou vol.2 Limited Edition
*6, *,816 *6,418 The iDOLM@STER vol.7 Limited Edition
*7, *,785 *6,609 Ano Natsu de Matteru vol.2 Limited Edition
*8, *,759 *6,367 Inu x Boku SS vol.2 Limited Edition
*9, *,699 *6,237 Seitokai Yakuindomo OVA
10, *,672 **,672 Kill Me Baby vol.3

DVD
*1, 2,855 *,*15,773 Naruto: Shippuuden Movie 5 - Blood Prison Limited Edition
*2, 1,597 1,135,206 My Neighbor Totoro
*3, 1,106 *,**1,106 Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou vol.2
*4, 1,087 *,*10,294 Gintama' vol.10
*5, *,994 *,**6,729 Inu x Boku SS vol.2 Limited Edition
*6, *,987 *,**3,443 Naruto: Shippuuden Movie 5 - Blood Prison Standard Edition
*7, *,971 *,***,971 Naruto: Shippuuden Senjyo no Paradise Life vol.3
*8, *,958 *,**8,310 Nisemonogatari vol.1 Limited Edition
*9, *,930 *,**3,716 Sekaiichi Hatsukoi 2 vol.5 Limited Edition
10, *,836 *,***,836 Amagami SS+ plus vol.2
11, *,765 *,**6,985 Persona 4 The Animation vol.6 Limited Edition
12, *,660 *,**6,253 Detective Conan Bonus File Fantasita no Hana
13, *,558 *,480,427 Kiki's Delivery Service
14, *,520 *,750,484 Castle in the Sky
15, *,473 *,**3,205 Sore Ike! Anpanman Ongakukan
16, *,446 *,***,446 Fairy Tail vol.28

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Temporal DVD + Blu-ray Sales Rankings for Winter 2012 (first volumes)
*1, 61,481 Nisemonogatari
*2, 14,286 Inu x Boku SS
*3, 10,547 Highschool DxD
*4, 10,345 Natsume Yuujinchou Shi
*5, *8,677 Aquarion Evol
*6, *7,694 Ano Natsu de Matteru
*7, *7,639 New Prince of Tennis
*8, *6,472 Mouretsu Pirates
*9, *5,098 Senki Zesshou Symphogear
10, *4,973 Brave 10
11, *4,520 Amagami SS+ plus
12, *4,391 Papa no Iukoto wo Kikinasai!
13, *3,694 Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou
14, *3,089 Rinne no Lagrange
15, *2,573 Another
16, *2,353 Tantei Opera Milky Holmes Dai 2 Maku
17, *1,525 Zero no Tsukaima F (vol.2)
18, **,686 Kill Me Baby
 

duckroll

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Apparently Sunrise is doing an anime for Nerawareta Gakuen (The Aimed School). The director is another Madhouse director - Ryosuke Nakamura (Mouryou no Hako). The bailout from Badhouse seems pretty serious!
 
Nisemonogatari is an unstoppable beast.
What were Madoka Magica's sales like again? It was high but I think Nise topped it.

No, Madoka's first volume sales were 80,089. Nise's not going to top that.

Apparently Sunrise is doing an anime for Nerawareta Gakuen (The Aimed School). The director is another Madhouse director - Ryosuke Nakamura (Mouryou no Hako). The bailout from Badhouse seems pretty serious!

Interest gained.
 

Articalys

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Single CD
11, 11,801 *46,845 Detective Conan Movie 16: The Eleventh Striker "Haruuta"
12, *9,918 **9,918 Fate/Zero 2nd Season "Sora wa Takaku Kaze wa Utau"
21, *5,254 *37,066 Fate/Zero 2nd Season "to the beginning"
24, *4,154 **4,154 Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal "Wild Child"
28, *3,714 **3,714 Hyouka "Yasashisa no Riyuu"
30, *3,401 166,378 Doraemon: Nobita and the Miracle Island - Animal Adventure "Ikiteru Ikiteku"
36, *2,998 *23,866 Natsuiro Kiseki "Non stop road" "Asu e no Kaerimichi"
39, *2,146 *17,461 Hanazawa Kana "Hoshizora☆Destination"
42, *1,741 *63,850 Mouretsu Pirates "Mugen no Ai"
43, *1,665 *42,608 The iDOLM@STER Cinderella Master vol.2 Anzu
44, *1,549 *13,905 Kuroko no Basket "Can Do"
47, *1,420 **6,481 Mouretsu Pirates "Black Holy"
50, *1,374 **4,706 Saki: Achiga-hen - Episode of Side-A "Square Panic Serenade"
 

duckroll

Member
Single CD
11, 11,801 *46,845 Detective Conan Movie 16: The Eleventh Striker "Haruuta"
12, *9,918 **9,918 Fate/Zero 2nd Season "Sora wa Takaku Kaze wa Utau"
21, *5,254 *37,066 Fate/Zero 2nd Season "to the beginning"
24, *4,154 **4,154 Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal "Wild Child"
28, *3,714 **3,714 Hyouka "Yasashisa no Riyuu"
30, *3,401 166,378 Doraemon: Nobita and the Miracle Island - Animal Adventure "Ikiteru Ikiteku"
36, *2,998 *23,866 Natsuiro Kiseki "Non stop road" "Asu e no Kaerimichi"
39, *2,146 *17,461 Hanazawa Kana "Hoshizora☆Destination"
42, *1,741 *63,850 Mouretsu Pirates "Mugen no Ai"
43, *1,665 *42,608 The iDOLM@STER Cinderella Master vol.2 Anzu
44, *1,549 *13,905 Kuroko no Basket "Can Do"
47, *1,420 **6,481 Mouretsu Pirates "Black Holy"
50, *1,374 **4,706 Saki: Achiga-hen - Episode of Side-A "Square Panic Serenade"

What happened to the Apollon OP?
 

cajunator

Banned
Single CD
11, 11,801 *46,845 Detective Conan Movie 16: The Eleventh Striker "Haruuta"
12, *9,918 **9,918 Fate/Zero 2nd Season "Sora wa Takaku Kaze wa Utau"
21, *5,254 *37,066 Fate/Zero 2nd Season "to the beginning"
24, *4,154 **4,154 Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal "Wild Child"
28, *3,714 **3,714 Hyouka "Yasashisa no Riyuu"
30, *3,401 166,378 Doraemon: Nobita and the Miracle Island - Animal Adventure "Ikiteru Ikiteku"
36, *2,998 *23,866 Natsuiro Kiseki "Non stop road" "Asu e no Kaerimichi"
39, *2,146 *17,461 Hanazawa Kana "Hoshizora☆Destination"
42, *1,741 *63,850 Mouretsu Pirates "Mugen no Ai"
43, *1,665 *42,608 The iDOLM@STER Cinderella Master vol.2 Anzu
44, *1,549 *13,905 Kuroko no Basket "Can Do"
47, *1,420 **6,481 Mouretsu Pirates "Black Holy"
50, *1,374 **4,706 Saki: Achiga-hen - Episode of Side-A "Square Panic Serenade"

To the Beginning is a really great song. Glad its selling well.
 

wonzo

Banned
Very slow week for DVD sales, but anyway:

Weekly Rankings for April 30-May 6

Blu-ray
*5, 1,395 *1,395 Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou vol.2 Limited Edition

DVD
*3, 1,106 *,**1,106 Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou vol.2
Nichibros has a good run. *pours 40*
 
Fate/Zero 16-17

I believe this is what is known as "shit going down'. If I had any remaining doubt that these are cutthroat people we're dealing with, it is shattered.
 

dimb

Bjergsen is the greatest midlane in the world
I think we all know that its just biding its time until whatever volume contains THE EPISODE.
That one will be pretty interesting.
No...nobody outside a very specific audience cares about that episode and they are the same people who bought Nise the first week.
 

Koroviev

Member
Finished Mirai Nikki. Overall, I really enjoyed it. The ending isn't as terrible as I was expecting it to be, but it is lacking.
The whole parallel worlds thing removed a lot of the weight from the story. Really would have preferred an infinite loop ending, where Yuno repeatedly goes back in time to experience the survival game with Yukki. I suppose that still implies the parallel worlds, though. Also, psycho Yuno is best Yuno. I want nothing to do with docile, normal Yuno.

At a certain point, I was kind of expecting a Catherine-esque ending, wherein
Yuno turned out to be a succubus or some other form of demon.
The plot is very reminiscent of Devil Survivor 2, or rather, DS2 is much like Mirai Nikki.

Anyone care to explain the difference between the anime ending and the manga ending?

Edit: Also, I haven't looked yet, but I imagine that TV Tropes had an absolute field day with this series.
 

Envelope

sealed with a kiss
Did I hear someone mention CG berseker?

CG berserker sucks.


:)

I like what they tried to do with it, but it still looks as weird as hell, which I guess is the point. Or something.

Are you insinuating that Lit girl and Ringo arent moe? Because they are totally cute as hell.

What? Ringo especially was 100% unmoe.
 

BluWacky

Member
Damn, you're probably right. dtshyk is an ignorant fool...

Anyway, I'll find the actual number as soon as the Oricon weekly rankings go public.

I've looked at the daily rankings and, although there's no sales figures, it looks to be heading for around number 5 in the weekly charts so it should have sold more than all of the other anime singles this week (although I don't know how many of those sales will have been for Playball, which is a pretty good song in its own right).

Kanno's on a roll - last week her SMAP single was number 1!
 

Brazil

Living in the shadow of Amaz
Finished Mirai Nikki. Overall, I really enjoyed it. The ending isn't as terrible as I was expecting it to be, but it is lacking.
The whole parallel worlds thing removed a lot of the weight from the story. Really would have preferred an infinite loop ending, where Yuno repeatedly goes back in time to experience the survival game with Yukki. I suppose that still implies the parallel worlds, though. Also, psycho Yuno is best Yuno. I want nothing to do with docile, normal Yuno.

At a certain point, I was kind of expecting a Catherine-esque ending, wherein
Yuno turned out to be a succubus or some other form of demon.
The plot is very reminiscent of Devil Survivor 2, or rather, DS2 is much like Mirai Nikki.

Anyone care to explain the difference between the anime ending and the manga ending?

Edit: Also, I haven't looked yet, but I imagine that TV Tropes had an absolute field day with this series.

The manga ending has an extra scene, in which
Yuno and Deus seemingly break reality with a hammer or whatever and reach hikikomori Yuki and everyone but the reader gets a happy ending.

Edit: Dammit.
 

Cwarrior

Member
Well the fist volume didn't do badly at least.

the disparity between manga sales and anime is huge, like for example you would see Giant killing manga do 201,722 in it's first week but when it comes to the anime it bombs, another example chihayafaru manga sales well but the anime megabombs.

anime sales are more in line with light nove sales were stuff like infinite stratos is king.
 

RurouniZel

Asks questions so Ezalc doesn't have to
Already posted? Powerpuff Girls, Aya Hirano Team Up for Song

Voice actress Aya Hirano is collaborating with the Powerpuff Girls franchise to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Cartoon Network channel in Japan. The collaboration includes a rock song sung by Hirano titled "Cartoon Rock Gaki!!"

The team up will also include collaborative goods for the new "unit" called PPG+A (Power Puff Girls + Aya Hirano) that will be sold during Hirano's concert tour that kicks off on June 16.

The website for the collaboration is currently streaming a video of Hirano introducing the collaboration and singing the song while an image of the Powerpuff Girls character Blossom is drawn. The lyrics of the song describe how to draw the character.

Other editions of the song and video will feature the Powerpuff Girls characters Bubbles and Buttercup, as well as videos featuring Courage from the series Courage the Cowardly Dog and Bloo from the series Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends. The videos will also air daily at random times on the Cartoon Network channel between June and December.

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